OPINION | ON BOOKS: Fortuitous reading — a list of fiction, nonfiction novel suggestions from 2021

In Samuel Johnson's last great work, "The Lives of the Poets," there is a fascinating passage about the intellect and reading habits of one of Johnson's most important literary models, 17th-century poet John Dryden.

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